I am a designer by trade, educator by profession and organiser by inclination. I work at the intersections of commoning practices, postcapitalist politics and climate action. I specialise in creative communications, grassroots community building and developing just transition imaginaries.

I have been active in the European climate justice movement since 2009. I co-founded disobedient action collectives (codeROOD, Fossil Free Culture NL, Queers4Climate) and co-developed the strategic frameworks of Climate Games, a transmedia action-adventure platform enabling peer-to-peer disobedience, and of Shell Must Fall, a grassroots campaign targeting shareholder meetings of the carbon major. I co-initiated the social housing projects NieuwLand, a postcapitalist intentional community where I currently live, and de Nieuwe Meent, a rental cooperative based on patterns of commoning, currently under construction.

My PhD in Cultural Analysis from University of Amsterdam is about commoning practices in postcapitalist design. I taught eco-social design at the New Earth minor in Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam and I was the 2022 Artist in Residence at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture. As part of the PITCH project, I’m currently doing a postdoc at the University of Amsterdam on petrocultures and the creative repurposing of fossil energy infrastructure in the just transition.

Postdoctoral research at the University of Amsterdam, on the creative eco-social reuse of fossil energy infrastructure to embolden and accelerate the just transition. Collaborating with E-WERK Luckenwalde, a lignite power plant turned into renewable energy provider and art centre.

PhD research conducted in University of Amsterdam, on commoning practices in postcapitalist design, understood as the shared valorisation of labour, knowledge and artefacts.

A summer school for spatial design students and led by climate justice organisers, on how Royal Dutch Shell infrastructure will be decommissioned and repurposed in the coming decades.

Founding member and future resident of the housing cooperative based on the patterns of commoning, care, diversity and sustainability. The building combines co-living groups, social housing, shared functions and public spaces and it is currently under construction.